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New Harp, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Montague-Forestburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76239. The Survey maps it on the New Harp quadrangle. 8 people lived here at the 2000 count.

New Harp within Montague County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of New Harp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,660 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVALKMAN FIRE
23 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOWER
22 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH BARRELS
9 August 2011Natural150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMERRITT ROAD FIRE
9 August 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAMMER LIGHTNING
27 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasPINE
20 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROSSTON RD FIRE
19 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUSH CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montague County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Harp in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011HailNew Harp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montague County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Forestburg5.6 miles10
Smyrna8.7 miles8
Hardy9.0 miles10
Dry Valley9.4 miles10
Mallard9.9 miles10
Sunset10.3 miles8
Salona11.3 miles10
Gladys11.8 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on New HarpAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122552377The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382383. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.